A tropical fruit tree native to India, also known as Indian gooseberry, valued for its extremely high vitamin C content.
From Sanskrit 'amalaka,' the word entered English through Hindi and other Indian languages. The Sanskrit root refers to the fruit itself, which has been used in Ayurvedic medicine for thousands of years.
The emblic fruit has about 20 times more vitamin C than an orange—ancient Indian physicians were using nature's most potent vitamin C source long before the modern world discovered vitamins!
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